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For over fifty years now, Ralph Stanley has been one of the defining voices in bluegrass. After solidifying his own artistic identity with groups like the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain...

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Local blues band
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Talk To Me, Baby
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Glamour Girl
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Hunky Dorey
The Chickenhead Blues Band - Marvin's Water
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Legendary New Orleans keyboard wizard Allen Toussaint was responsible for producing a large chunk of the Crescent City's funk R&B during the latter half of the last century, helping to connect...

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The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a remarkable all-black old-time string band and one of last remaining links to the comparable folk acts of the 1920's and 1930's, so their mission is as much...

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Billy Bragg was the poster boy for socially conscious folk rock in the U.K. in the '80s, but his influence has persisted thanks in no small part to his collaboration with Wilco back when they were...

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Kid Pan Alley is a national program which uses music to teach kids to be cute little creatives rather than passive Saturday morning consumer vegetables, and the Charlottesville branch is run by...

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Back in the 1960's, Tommy and Dick Smothers were known for socially relevant and usually hilarious comic folk songs which gave a voice to the festering dissatisfaction of America's youth with the...

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As the former drummer of The Band, you'd think that Levon Helm would be content enough with his legacy to relax after taking a hit as troublesome as throat cancer. Instead, he bounced back...